It's SUMMER!

I know a lot of you are looking forward to spring. Here in the Houston area we have two seasons...a little bit of winter and then a long hot and humid summer.  Summer has arrived and I had forgotten how much I dislike the heat and humidity.

This past winter was wonderful! The coldest and longest winter that I can recall in 30+ years of living in this area. We actually had a few frosts and for the first time in many years I lost some of my tropical plants. I kept moving them into the garage whenever they predicted a frost, but one time I didn't and that was all it took.

This is a picture of Reid arriving home. You can see one of my fig trees that didn't make it. (I'm not sure of the real name, but I call them fig trees for short.) I had that tree since 1990.

Sophie was happy to see him.

We have a mobile garden again this year.  I wheel the wagon around the yard so our tomato and pepper plants get enough sun.  Here's Reid checking the crop.

We have peppers!

And a tomato!

And we have tiny limes on the lime tree.  There were more last week, so I'm thinking the birds might be picking them off?

 I really wanted to take this tree out, but now that there are limes it makes it harder for me to do so.  I don't care for a tropical landscape.  It must be the New Jersey in me, but I want the yard to be like woods with pines, oaks, etc.  There are some Crape Myrtles along the fence and I plan to have them taken out.  I hate Crape Myrtles.  I know a lot of people really like them, but I don't.

The next few days are supposed to be cooler (not in the 90's) and I need to get outside and finish organizing the garage.  We have a three car garage and still can't get a car inside it!